We deduct Social Security from paychecks because the government runs the SS system. We deduct unemployment taxes from paychecks because the government runs the unemployment system.
These bureaucracies, by the way, are massive. Tons of employees, who have unions, health benefits, retirement benefits, legal representation, infrastructure, etc., etc., etc. Telephones, toilet paper, coffee breaks, the whole nine yards. Nice buildings with parking garages and guards with metal detectors. Air conditioned in the summer, heating in the winter, nothing's too good for the government. Not that any one of the little bastards appreciates it.
Question #1 - are you saying that the government should run health care?
Question #2 - are you saying we need yet another bureaucracy just to send the money to health care providers?
Question #3 - wouldn't it be cheaper NOT to have another bureacracy sucking up money from the system?
Comment -- most adults in my family are health care providers. They hate Medicare patients, Medicaid patients, and welfare patients and most refuse to treat them. They hate the bureaucratic snafus, they hate having to send the same paperwork in again and again in order to get paid.
Oh, except for my brother. He gets contracts from the feds to run clinics on reservations in Arizona, makes nice money. He's a nurse, that gives you an idea of the kind of care they get. He's a good nurse, I am not knocking him. |
